Quantitative Developer

Responsibilities

1. Collaborate with business product owners and quantitative teams to understand help drive technology platform and solutions to meet quantitative and analytics needs for Quant Research business
2. Work on the development of code libraries and solutions that leverage and appropriately augment existing structures to meet the needs of the research-driven investment and analysis processes, often in the absence of clearly documented specifications.
3. Lead and work with developers to identify which interim solutions (e.g., tools, applications, reports, data structures, etc.) have matured sufficiently to transition to a production environment, and produce specifications for such solutions, enabling IT to elevate strategically targeted prototypes to production.
4. Identify and evaluate the most appropriate methods, tools, datasets and technology solutions to address requirements.
5. Partnering with Product owners and Quants to help implement models to inform the investment decision making process
6. Building large scale distributed computing programs to generate insightful analytics and present results in user-friendly visualization
7. Implement standards, processes, and tools for numerical library testing and code quality controls
8. Review implementation of complex models and algorithms focusing on requirement verification and code quality. Conduct code review with peers and model developers and obtain their feedback.
9. Innovate and improve proprietary models and algorithms; design and deliver in terms of high reliability, resiliency and scalability

Tech, business and leadership skills

1. Strong domain skills Quantitative Research, Risk, Equity Portfolio Management etc.
2. Works in many technologies and adapts fast to new technologies
3. Adept with various architectures including real-time, batch, orchestration
4. Adept with multiple parts of the software lifecycle (e.g., coding, testing, development)
5. Stays abreast of industry trends and technologies and knows when/how/if to apply them appropriately
6. Conversant with providing a clear explanation of strategy, technical concepts, designs or implementation to a non-technical audience